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The Panj Pyare: Five Beloved Ones
Five ordinary men stepped forward when Guru Gobind Singh Ji called. Solve the crossword on the Panj Pyare — the Five Beloved Ones who founded the Khalsa.
Across
- 2The spring festival of March 30, 1699, when nearly eighty thousand Sikhs gathered and the Khalsa was born.
- 3The great Mughal city where Bhai Daya Singh Ji — the first to rise — was born in 1661.
- 7The 'Letter of Victory' written in Persian verse that Bhai Daya Singh Ji carried to Emperor Aurangzeb in the Deccan.
- 8The sacred nectar prepared in an iron bowl, given to the Panj Pyare at the birth of the Khalsa.
- 10Righteousness — the virtue of the second Beloved One, a farmer from Hastinapur who rose despite two men already gone.
- 12The Sikh order founded by Guru Gobind Singh Ji when five ordinary men offered their heads and became immortal.
- 13The 1705 battle where forty Khalsa warriors faced ten thousand soldiers — and three of the five original Beloved Ones gave their lives.
Down
- 1The sugar puffs that Mata Sahib Kaur Ji added to the Amrit, bringing sweetness and compassion to the warriors.
- 4The Sikh prayer recited daily in every Gurdwara, in which the names of the Panj Pyare are remembered.
- 5Courage — the virtue of the third Beloved One, who travelled from Jagannath Puri in Odisha to serve at Anandpur.
- 6Compassion — the virtue carried by the first Beloved One, who was also the first to rise when Guru Ji called.
- 9Steadfastness — the virtue of the fourth Beloved One, a cloth printer from Dwarka in Gujarat who rose fourth.
- 11The city in the Shivalik hills where Guru Gobind Singh Ji gathered eighty thousand Sikhs on Vaisakhi 1699.
- 12The double-edged sword used to stir water while reciting five sacred Banis, preparing the Amrit.
What you'll learn
- The story of the Five Beloved Ones and the first Amrit Sanchar
- The names of the Panj Pyare and where they came from
- How the Khalsa was founded at Vaisakhi 1699